The Winkler County News (Kermit, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 18, Ed. 1 Friday, July 30, 1943 Page: 1 of 4
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Friday, July 30, 1943
Kermit, Winkler County, Texas
Volume?; No. 18
Side
Issues
BY H. G. VERMILLJOM
I got some kidding last week
25
on
Draft Board Action
The following reclassifications
all
Emory
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mentioned;
R.
of
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his
CONGRATULATIONS
Wickett,
MARRIAGE LICENSES
a
lot of
DIVORCE SUIT
J. E. Caudle vs Pearl Caudle.
house!
on
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Ci
First Polio Case
In County Found;
Wink Girl Is Victim
Gas Coupons Must
Be Indorsed Now
MRS. DEE ROSE
HOSTESS TO CLUB
the
in
just don’t
Oil :
living
any
the
Ann Whiteman spent last week
in iDallas visiting Relatives and
Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Bollinger
and children spent the week end
visiting relatives in Colorado City.
YOUNG PEOPLE GO
ON SANDHILLS PICNIC
Highway Officer
To Talk At Church
• 500
grown
'Lions To Sponsor
Bathing Revue;
Park Funds Sought
Heath Acquitted
In Hot Justice Court
Trial By Jury
The Winkler County News
An Institution Promoting The Interests of Winkler County
John Marvin Lindsey, 2-year-
old son of Mr. and Mrs. John
Lindsey, fell while playing with a
bicycle Tuesday, and 'broke his
leg above the knee. He was rest-
ing comfortably at the local hos-
pital Thursday.
Ceiling Prices Here
Are Inspected;
Mistakes Found
Patricia Shields of Kermit had
her tonsils removed at the local
hospital Thursday.
Gene West, son of Troy West,
had his tonsils removed at the
local hospital Tuesday.
That hime factor should coin-
cide with the greatest period of
deep J
Mrs. John Pembroke left Fri-
day to spend a week or ten days
taking care otf business in Gaines-
ville.
Mrs. Jack Garber and baby of
Mexia are visiting her father, J.
E. Caudle, and Mr. and Mrs. R.
E. Gariber.
Motorists and other users
gasoline were reminded this week
by Chairman Walter Fiensy of
the Winkler County War Price
and Rationing Board that all the
coupons in their gasoline ration
books must be indorsed at once,
under a changed OPA ruling.
In the past it was not necessary
to write notations on the coupons
until they were actually used.
Mrs. Charles McIver and dau-
ghter, who have been visiting rel-
atives in Oklahoma for the past
month, have returned to Kermit
and are making their home with
Mrs. McIver’s parents, Mr. and
Mrs. E. T. Barnes.
Elsie Mae Cole, secretary
the ration board office, is on va-
cation this week.
Sheriff and Mrs. Ellis Summers
and son, Frank Ellis, have re-
turned from Wichita Falls, where
they spent several days visiting
the sheriff’s father, F. D. Summ-
ers.
John J. Labreche and Dorothy
Ann Rafinski. Labreche is in the
30th Squadron of the 19th Bomb
Group at the Pyote Air Base.
Oscar F. Blackman and Mar-
garet Helen Norris. Blackman is
stationed at the Pyote AirBase.
Mrs. Dorothy Nick of Itasca is
visiting in the home of hersister,
Mrs. Pete Caldwell.
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Mrs. Seth Woltz, who has been
in Abilene for the past threemon-
ths, is visiting relatives here this
week.
Mrs. Dee Rose was hostess to
members of the Thursday Bridge
Club in her home last week.
Mrs. W. H. Wilson won high
score and Mrs. Mark Caraway the
bingo prize'. Others playing were
Mesdames J. M. Waddell, Frank
Dickerson, T. E. Barnes, John
Pembroke, Dorothy Nick, and W.
E. Reneau.
Drs. Cecil and Rose Robinson
entertained a group of young
peovle with a party at the Hud-
son Airport place Wednesday
night to honor Phylis Syfrett.
. Games and dancing were enjoy-
ed during the evening and re-
freshments of hamburgers, drinks,
ice cream and cake were served
to Beverly Hester, the honoree,
Doris Ekas, Clara Mae Brewer,
Betty Jo Stinson, Elsie Mae
Cole, Darita Cox, Ruth Lankford,
Bill Cole, Rex Hester, Joe Spang-
ler, Bob Neely, Marvin Parker,
Jack Gibson and Mrs. Becky Rob-
inson. Mrs. Rolbinson and Bev-
erly Hester assisted with the re-
freshments.
Mr. and Mrs. Irving Looney,
who have been visiting their par-
ents, Mir. and Mrs. Roy Looney,
have returned to their home at
Levelland.
* * *
The back to the farm movement
has gotten Bill McAfee, who was
I one of the first persons I met in
| Kermit after I moved here. He is
move
to a farm ini Eastland County,
close to his old home.
Bill always has the look of a
guy who needs a good square
meal, and maybe when he’s in
the food raising business he’ll,
■ friends.
■
25 Are Summoned
In Car Tax Cases
* * *
I hear also that Jack Nelson
is about to take up the rural life
on a farm-ranch setup in New
Mexico.
Maybe the rest of us are just a
bunch of chumps. Maybe we’ll be
starving while Bill and Jack are
revelling in milk, butter, eggs,
pickled peaches, and so forth.
drilling activity in the new
oil fields in the county.
But in the meanwhile a
deep wells are being drilled and
will be drilled, and we
have enough houses. Oil field
workers actually are living in
Monahans and Odessa and driving
to work here daily.
My Kingdom for a
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This kind of situation has ex-
isted to some extent during most
of the two years I have lived in
Kermit. And during most of that
time this office has been more
or less an unofficial housing
headquarters.
But now something new has
been added. Now desperate peop-
le, after trying all the hotels,
come into the office seeking in-
formation n where they can find
a bed for the night. Just some de-
cent place to sleep.
And I must confess that usually
I can’t help them.
With Kermit packed to the
brim and in the midst of one of
the most acute housing shortages
in the history of the town, the
need for more living quarters is
daily in evidence.
The future of Kermit is a com-
mon topic of daily conversation,
and optimism ranges from the
unbounded variety on down.
But everyone admits that
great progress must await
erectioni of more residential liv-
ing space, and unless we can find
a fairy godfather somewhere, it
looks as if that will be after the
war is over.
THREE BROTHERS VISIT
H. C. DENNIS HERE
Three brothers, J. C. and W. O.
Dennis of Odessa and L. M.
Dennis and wife of Moran, vis-
ited Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Dennis
Also present were the son of
here last Saturday.
the local family, R. C. Dennis of
Brawley, Calif., and his family,
and Schultz Deizen of Odessa.
$ # *
Fred Leatlft son of Mr. and
Mrs. Alvis Leath, who is in the
Navy, is visiting his parents and
his sister, Mrs. Earl Charles-
worth.
J. S. Hedgepeth of Jal is a med-
ical patient in the local hospital.
( Stanley Baker, who is in the
Navy stationed at San Francisco,
was called home this week by the
serious illness of his baby dau-
ghter, who was suffering from a
throat infection. Her condition
was reported improving.
have been announced by the Win-
kler County [Selective Service
Board:
P to 1-A
James Waddell, Jr.,
Benny E. Rambo
O to P
William L. Griffin
Sammy L. Blackman
3-A to P
Clarence T. Lipham
3- A to 3-AH
Loraine H. Hazel
Arthur N. Kelley
William C. Marshall
Paul E. Urban
4- H to 3-AH
Lincoln R. Riley
Claude E. Wilson
2-B to 2-B
Sonnie Umberson
Henry M. Krause, Jr.,
Harold C. Owen
Harvey H. Purcell
Curtis R. Lewis
2- A to 2-B
Marshall T. Johnson
1-A to 4-F
James H. Pearson
4-D to 4-A
Otto Fluhman
1-AH to 4-A
Joseph A. Porterfield
Ardell Simpkins
3- A to 4-AH
Ralph Alvey
Joe M. Dulin
Walter M. Edrington
Joseph D. Hollcroft
James W. Massingii]
Joseph N. McDougal
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Harlan Wade, son of Mr. and
Mrs. M. H. Wade and a former
Kermit High Schoo] student, now
in the Navy, was home on a 3-day
leave this week.
He is in the Naval Medical
Corps and has seen service on
hospital ships and destroyers. His
unit is engaged in evacuating in-
jured service men from
fighting fronts to hospitals
this country.
,^’news of our
w MENwWOHEN
M IN UNIFORM
county’s oil valuations for tax
purposes are to be raised to a
total of $2,000,000. This was just
$18,000,000 under the proper
figure of $20,000,000 as set out
in the story under the headline.
Of course in these days of war
spending a paltry $18,000,000 or
so might not make much differ-
ence if you say it fast enough. I
I’m afraid I can’t say it fast en-
ough, though. It takes a slick-
talking character such as Mutt
Spangler to do the likes of that.
$18,-
our
Highway Patrolman Russell
Gifford will be the speaker at the
Sunday morning services of the
Baptist Church, County Judge J.
B. Salmon said this week. . The
pastor, Rev. Byron Bryant, is in
a revival meeting at Sundown.
Gifford once was a student at
the 'Southwestern Baptist Theo-
logical Seminary in Fort Worth
for a three- year period.
At the evening service, there
wil be a "sermon in song” under
the direction of W. K. Wharton.
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YOUNG PEOPLE PARTY
ROBINSONS GIVE
George Heath was acquitted of
a charge of disturbing the peace '
in a jury trial last Saturday that
turned into one of the hottest
fought justice of the peace cases .
ever tried in the cunty. ,
Attorney Murray Howze of
Monahans, representing Heath,
and Assistant County Attorney
W. T. Hair went at the case ham-
mer and tongs, and 'raised points
of law and procedure all over
A group of young people made
up a party to the sandhills for a
picnic Wednesday night.
Those in the party were Eula
Lott, Peggy Olsen, Joanne Birt-
ciel, Juanita Shirley, Betty Jean
Logan, Elmer Looney, Sgt. Ed
Snell, Walter Hahn, ISgt. Bob
Smith, Sgt. Harry Smadley, and
Leonard Bradford.
mit Magnolia employe, recently
was promoted from corporal to
sergeant, with rank of techniciain
4th grade, aat the Armored Re-
placement Center at Fort Knox,
Ky. He works in one of the Cen-
ter’s orcfn.'ance companies, doing
heavy maintenance on vehicles.
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First Lt. Lee Campbell and his
vrife tvcrt id-rit-jPg* ’.ys parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Seth Campbell, this
week. Lieutenant Campbell, in
the Army Air Forces, has been
stationed in Florida.
* * *
Corp. Walter R. Martin of Ker-
mit has been assigned to duty j
with the Army Air Forces foil- (
owing his graduation from the
Camp Curtissair Training School
at Buffalo, N. Y. The school is
operated by Qurtiss-Wright Corp,
and teaches maintenance and re-
pair of the P-40 pursuit ship and
the C-46 Commando, largest
twin-motored cargo ship in the
world.
The following Lions Club com1
mitfees for the year were ann-
ounced by President
Spangler:
Program, B. F. Meek and Rev.
Byron Bryant; constitution', Hal
Hester* and Johnny Garza; att-
endance and sick call, J. A.
Slaughter, Kenneth Burrows and
Fred Pearson; finance, Maury
Alberts, McKinley Spruill and
Steve Neely; Lions education,
G. C. Olsen and Ernest Chapman;
membership, S. M. Halley and
Slaughter; health and welfare,
J. B. Salmon and Warner Lewis;
citizenship and patriotism, Wayne
Adams and W. T. West; public-
ity, H. G- Vermillion and T. H.
Moorehead; civic improvement,
Dan P. English and J. M. Wad-
dell; safety, Ellis Summers; boys
and girls, Barton Smith and
Salmon; war scrap, Neely, Clyde
Borie, Alberts and Burrows; war
activities, Olsen, B. Burkhart,
W. M. McMurry and Vermillion;
War Bonds and Stamps, J.
Teague, English and Meek.
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Legion, Auxiliary
To Meet Jointly
Members of the American Leg-
ion and Auxiliary will meet at
the Legion Hut Tuesday night
for a social and business gath-
ering. A covered dish dinner will
be served at 7:30 p. m. Each
family was asked to bring a
fried chicken and a covered dish.
The Legion will elect officers
and the Auxiliary will have its
regular business meeting.
More Meat Is Sought
For Four-County Area
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Pair Visits Here
To Get Data On
County’s Needs
Working on a plan through
i which Winkler, Ward, Ector and
Midland Counties would get more
meat, Gene Burnett arid W. M.
Conner of the Midland County
\War Board were in Kermit this
week.
Burnett, former sanitarian with
the Winkler County Health Unit,
said the object of the trip was
to get figures on meat consum-
ption in the counties affected so
an attempt could be made to get
county quotas set, get the quota
allotted to a slaughterer or to
slaughterers, and get a subsidy
rollback on the meat thus sold.
If this plan fails, it still might
be possible for local butchers vto
get individual quotas, buy cattle
and have them custom slaughter-
ed as they are now, and still get
the benefit of the subsidy roll-
back, which amounts to 2.6 cents
a pound on beef.
Consumers are havin gto pay
that much more for beef because
no quota is legally in effect ini
the county, Burnett said.
Another effect probably would
be to increase the meat supply in
the affected counties, he said. A
total of 250,000 pounds of meat
a month was estimated as the
At
present the supply is far under
that figure, Burnett said.
Most of the meat being sold in’
Winkler County today is being
bought on the hoof by merchants
here and slaughtered by the A.
and M. Packing Company of Mid-
land. The packing company takes
the hide and other "waste” parts
in return for doing the slaugh-
tering job.
Roy Peden Named
County Agent Here
County Agent Roy Peden of Cul-
berson 'County has been appoint-
ed to succeed Lee Pool as Wink-
ler County agent and is to take
over his new duties next week.
Peden conferred with county
commissioners this week and arr-
anged to rent Pool’s house here
I from Billy Driver, who bought it.
1 Pool assumed his new duties as
Dawson County agent at Lamesa
Friday.
The Lions Club voted that dur-?
ing “Church Month” in Kermit,
members would attend three of
the Kermit churches in a body on planning, I understand, to
three successive Sundays, and on
the fourth Sunday would attend
their own churches.
The program will begin Sunday
with clulb members attending the
morning services of the Church
of^Christ at 11 a. m. get a few of them, although I
always sufepected that farmers
stand a good chance of working
themselves poor.
Anyway, the lady of the place
where Bill and family are going
to move showed him over
jars of stuff that had been i
and put up ontheplace.
'The farm was bought through
the Heath Commissiin Company
of Kermit.
Mrs. M. W. Vinson, her father
and. mother, Mr. and Mrs. Elmer
Grounds, and her sister, Sarah,
i recently spent two weeks visiting
■ Mrs. Q. K. Ebrle in Kermit. They
live in Penwell. Vinson is a for-
mer Kermit newspaper employe.
GARBERS HONORED
AT BBIRTDAY PARTY
Robert Garber surprised
mother and father, Mr. and Mrs.
R. E. Gariber, with a birthday
.party at their home in the Stan-
olind Camp Wednesday night.
Dominoes, bridge and cribbage
were played, and after the games,
refreshments of cake, punch, and.
bottled drinks were served to Mr.
and Mrs. Charlie Norris, Mr. and
Mrs. A. O. Turner, Mr. and Mrs.
Roy Hollingsworth, Mr. and Mrs.
Howard Davis, Miss Lillian Ayers,
Miss Doris Lovelace and Mrs.
Jack Garber.
Stanley Gene Miles, son of Mr.
and Mrs. P. O. Miles ofGrandfalls,
is ?. medical patient in the local
hospital.
M. L. Turney, Jr., of Browns-
ville, arrived Sunday to visit his
mother, Mrs. M. L. 'Turney. He
returned home Tuesday, accom-
panied by his wife and daughter,
Sammie Sue, who have been vis-
iting in Kermit for the past
three weeks.
the peace brought by Heath
against Mrs. Frahs was dropped
at his request.
present enforcement program
ceiling prices is chiefly one of
selling .the retail merchants
the plan and on the fact that they
have protected profits under it
because prices are regulated at
the wholesale level also.
Olsen said the local pa,nel on
prices is considering recruiting
women price checkers to inspect
ceiling prices here. Women are
considerer the best inspectors, he
said, because they know more ab-
out the merchandise, such as the
various can sizes,
! i
Summonses were issued to
car owners in Kermit this week to
appear before a deputy U. S.
revenue collector and show cause
why the $5 car use fax stamp
had not been placed on their ve-
hicles.
A numlber of those summoned
had bought the stamps but had
not placed them on their cars, it
was reported:, Others were re-
quired to buy stamps and pay
penalties.
The first case of infantile par-
alysis in Winkler County sinlce
the present epidemic in the state
began was reported this week as
five-year-old Betty Martin of
Wink contracted the disease.
However, Dr. Cecil Robinson,
county health officer who diag-
nosed the case and sent the girl
to Dallas for a more positive
diagnosis and treatment, said the
disease was contracted outside of
the county, and there is no cause
here for alarm.
The child: is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. C. Martin, who have
lived in Wink only a week. Mar-
tin came to the county in his
work for the Steel Tank Con-
struction Comfpjfiny. The family
had moved around over Texas
extensively recently, so it was
impossible to determine where
the case had its origin.
The child became ill about
three days ago, only a few days
after the family moved to Wink.
Martin has been working at the
Halley Tank Farm.
The family drove all night
Thursday night to reach Dallas,
on Dr. Robinson’s advice, and
Friday the local doctor was adi-
vised by a Dallas specialist that
the child definitely was a victim
of the dreaded polio, and that
both arms and one leg were aff-
ected by the characteristic par-
alysis. However, her condition
generally was good, and her rec-
overy seemed assured, it was re-
ported.
There had been some discussion
o)f reopening the Kermit school
swimming pool, but discovery of
the polio case apparently blocked
the possibility of any such move.
The real basis for the
000,000 error, of course, was
leaving out of a cipher.
This inspires a sort of pome:
There was a young teller nam-
Glypher
Who left out a zero or. cipher;
But he felt like a goon
On the last day of June
When the examiner wanted to
know why fer.,
; The Kermit Lions Club, with a
new slate of officers at the helm,
this week lined up an ambitious
program of projects to sponsor,
including these:
1. A bathing beauty revue at
the school swimming pool Aug-
ust 13.
2. A move to have the county
take over sponsorship of
in Kermit, probably
park under the water tower.
3. Church Month in Kermit in
August.
The bathing beauty revue was
set tentatively for 8:30 p. m. on
Friday, Aug. 13, with B. F. Meek
as general chairman. Admission
prices will be 50 cents for adults
and 25 cents for children.
Representatives from the Lions
Club and from Wink met with the
Commissioners Court ’Friday to
discuss the park proposal. The
Wink group asked for beautifi-
cation of the school park there.
However, it was said at the meet-
ing that before the money for
parks could be advanced by the
court, it might be necessary , to
have a vote of the people, and
a special tax might have to be
levied. The court took the mat-
Curt R. Curfman, former Ker- ter under advisement.
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Harold Warnick, son of Mr. i
and Mrs. Lee Warnick, is station-
ed at Keesler Field, Miss., where
he is attending an Air Forces
Technical School.
a park
the City
of law and procedure
te place.
Argument involved in the case
was whether Heath had a right
to do the things he did at the , . ,,
house inhabited by Mr. a"d Mrs. need ‘hc lour, «o,“tles-
Ernest Frahs, in view of the fact
he had leased the house, owned
by Carey & Carey.
'The jury apparently decided
that Heath had a right to try to
break a lock on a gate leading to
■a. storage yard on the place, so
he could get the ^umbers off of
some boilers. The lock breaking
incident was the center of tes-
timony in the case.
Later, this week, Heath ob-
tained cancellatioirj of .a $1000
peace bond imposed last week by
Justice of the Peace B. F. San-
del. The trouble apparently was
cleared up as it was reported the
Frahs were moving from the,
house, of which Heath had sought/
possession. I
Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Duncan of
Wink, a daughter born July 26.
She has been named Peggy Jo.
* * *
Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Smith of
a son born July 24.
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Mr. and Mrs, B. W. Flynt of Jal,
son born July 25.
* * *
Mr. and Mrs. J. R. King of Ker-
mit. a son born July 27.
* * *
Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Line of Ker-
mit, a daughter born July 28.
Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Jackson
have moved to Kermit from Syl-
vester and are employed at the
Barnes Pharmacy. Mrs. Jackson’s
sister, Patsy Sue, is visiting
them.
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Thurston of
Houston, former Kermit resi-
dents, are visiting relatives in.
Kermit.
Sun Oil May Build
Camp In Kermit
/It was reported this week that
the Sun Oil Company had bought
a block of land in the Underwood
Addition and would build a camp
there.
A counter charge of disturbineJ<;rhe 1Wock ment.oned
west of the Permian Ice Com-
pany.
It also was reported on good
authority that the Bethlehem
Supply Company is going to put
in a house in Kermit on the site
opposite the Robinson-McClure
Hospital now occupied by the war
scrap pile.
/ An inspection of ceiling price
practices in three Kermit groc-
eries last week showed a num-
ber of violation,s the Lubbock
OPA official who made the in-
about the headline that said the Vpection reported to G. C. Olsen,
member of the price pane] of the
Winkder County War Price and
Rationing Board.
The official said that all the
grocers had agreed to meet the
new OPA community price ceil-
ings, and Olsen was checking ahis
week to determine if the prices
had been changed.
The OPA offifial said that the
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